Image: Our Christmas Tree in the church foyer – decorated with stars to celebrate all that brings us joy.

Christmas Day – readings and carols

Sunday, December 25, 9.30am

All welcome, in the church and online, for a service of readings and carols on Christmas morning. Please note special time: 9.30am.

Our offering will be in support of Act for Peace’s Christmas Bowl Appeal – providing refugees in Kenya, India, Jordan and Hungary with food, care and lifesaving support … families in Zimbabwe with training in the latest climate-resilient farming techniques.

You are invited to make an offering via the SSUC online portal: mycb.link/46613

Christ comes … to shine a light on hostilities (toward the poor, the stranger, the most vulnerable) and to light the way of wisdom – hospitality, peace with justice … Christ comes to the anawim, the “have-nots” … as subversive and creative event. A peasant family is made holy. A young woman at risk of abandonment or worse is blessed … she bears the Promised One and will become the queen of heaven.

Our God-talk – theology, theo-poetics – begins here, again and again … the “new song” for which the psalmist calls …

Join via Zoom
Meeting ID: 879 3746 4388
Password: 087151